If there is one area of my teaching practice that I would like to improve on the most, it would be descriptive feedback. I just have a hard time with it. It seems to me that one of two things happen; either I spend a long time on each assignment carefully crafting a comment, only to find it later in the trash, or I give it the old "good job" and I find it later in the trash.
Clearly, the assignment has little value for my students if they feel they can simply dispose of it once they have their "grade". It also seems clear to me that even if I try to provide some good feeedback, it is not enough to add value for the student. Is it a failure of the material assigned, the project that was assigned, or the feedback?
Regardless, I want to get better at descriptive feedback, but where to start? I have looked at several examples online, and they all seem to lack meaning as well. In other words, they say the same thing as a "good job", but in a more complicated way, not necessarily adding much to the understanding of the student.
How can I use descriptive feedback to increase meaning for students? How can I do this quickly, not spending hours and hours marking assignments? How can I increase student engagement so that I find fewer assignments in the trash?
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